GALLERY
While most companies concentrate on the big picture, DCM Science Laboratory puts their focus on the little things… microscopic materials magnified 10 to 1000 times.
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Aggregate of chlorite showing anomalous interference colors. Polarized light – 200X
Blue crocidolite asbestos. Polarized light – 100X
Aggregate of colorful diopside. Polarized light – 200X
SEM image showing delicate hexagonal crystals of hydrocerussite on litharge. 7720X
Several grains of halite. Polarized light – 200X
Vesuvianite showing anomalous blue interference colors with diopside and garnet. Polarized light -200X
SEM image of calcium uranium silicate grains in a clay matrix. 6160X
SEM image of diatoms in a clay matrix. 1810X
Amosite asbestos. Polarized light – 40X
Anthophyllite asbestos. Polarized light – 40X
Arsenopyrite – crossed nichols. Reflected light – 200X
Arsenopyrite – crossed nichols. Reflected light – 200X
Bright gold in tetrahedrite. Reflected light – 200X
Chalcedony showing typical fibrous habit. Polarized light – 100X
Chalcopyrite showing a myrmekitic texture. Reflected light – 200X
Chrysotile asbestos. Polarized light – 40X
Cluster of cherry red cinnabar crystals. Reflected light crossed nichols – 200X
Dolomite in opaline chert. Polarized light – 40X
Colorful cluster of epidote. Polarized light – 40X
Iron oxide pseudomorph after arsenopyrite in a matrix of jarosite and mimetite. Reflected light crossed nichols – 200X
Bright gold in iron oxide. Reflected light – 200X
Bright gold included in arsenopyrite. Reflected light – 200
Pyrite w/veinlets of gold and purple/blue colored rickardite. Reflected light – 200X
Bright gold with bluish grey weissite and tennantite. Reflected light – 200X
Exotic iron oxide and chrysocolla. reflected light crossed Nichols – 200X
Euhderal crystals of loellingite in a calcite matrix. Reflected light – 200X
Magnetite showing a myrmekitic texture. Reflected light – 200X
Colorful mica and epidote in a biotite chlorite schist. Polarized light – 40X
A small vug filled with fibrous goethite. Reflected light crossed nichols – 200X
Wormy intergrowths of quartz and plagioclase. Polarized light – 40X
Olivine showing strong alteration to grey serpentine. Polarized light – 40X
Colorful olivine, opaque chromite and striated bronzite. Polarized light – 40X
Phlogopite mica in a matrix of leucite. Polarized light – 40X
Framboidal pyrite in black shale. Reflected light – 200X
Numerous small grains of pyroxene included in plagioclase. Polarized light – 40X
Quartz grains with cloudy, secondary quartz overgrowths. Polarized light – 40X
Cherry red inclusions of ruby silver in galena. Reflected light crossed nichols. 200X
Siderite shperes in a clay matrix. Polarized light – 40X
Colorful aggregate of stromeyerite. Reflected light – 200X
